Children and young people's participation and its transformative potential : learning from across countries / edited by E. Kay M. Tisdall, Andressa M. Gadda, Udi Mandel Butler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tisdall, E. Kay M., editor.

Gadda, Andressa, editor.

Butler, Udi Mandel, editor.

Series:

Studies in childhood and youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's rights.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

xvi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

Over the past 20 years, children and young people's participation in decision-Making has become part of international, and often national, policy rhetoric. Participation has become a rallying cry for those committed to children's rights and respecting children and young people as social actors, as part of their communities and broader society. Yet children and young people's participation has faced considerable challenges in realizing the rhetoric, with concerns being raised that too much emphasis has been placed on the process of participation and too little emphasis on its impact. This book brings together theories, ideas, insights and experiences of practitioners and researchers from Brazil, India, South Africa and the UK on children and Young people's participation. It explores the potential of children and young people's participation to be transformative and to challenge social and cultural structures that reproduce inequality and oppression. This book will be particularly useful for those interested in children's rights and human rights, childhood and youth studies and development studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Children and Young People's Participation in Collective Decision-making / E. Kay M. Tisdall Tisdall, E. Kay M., Rachel Hinton Hinton, Rachel, Andressa M. Gadda Gadda, Andressa M., Udi Mandel Butler Butler, Udi Mandel 1

Origins of the cross-country network 4

Children and young people's participation 8

Subsequent chapters 16

Note on terminology 18

Notes 19

Bibliography 19

2 Reflections on Participation and Its Link with Transformative Processes / Kelly Teamey Teamey, Kelly, Rachell Hinton Hinton, Rachell 22

Introduction 22

The Power of Language 24

A brief history of participation 25

Exploring connections between participation, transformation and learning 30

Exploring indigenous cosmologies and ways of knowing 34

Transformative processes and social movements 37

Drawing together and moving forward 39

Bibliography 40

3 Decolonizing the Notion of Participation of Children and Young People / Savyasaachi, Udi Mandel Butler Butler, Udi Mandel 44

Historical origins and cultural roots of 'participation' 47

Power and participation 48

Appreciating the pluralistic possibilities of participation 49

Listening to children and young people 52

Decolonizing theorizing itself 54

Questions to ponder 58

Bibliography 58

4 Children and Young People's Participation in Public Action in Brazil: Genealogies and Recent Innovations / Udi Mandel Butler Butler, Udi Mandel, Marcelo Princeswal Princeswal, Marcelo 61

Introduction 61

Part I Struggle and Political repression, the difficult construction of democracy 63

Part II The building of a democratic state and the key Spaces of Public action 67

Part III Deepening democratic participation 71

Conclusion 76

Bibliography 77

5 Brazil's Landless Movement and Children and Young People's Participation / Marcelo Princeswal Princeswal, Marcelo, Udi Mandel Butler Butler, Udi Mandel 79

Introduction 79

The Development of the MST 81

Children and Young people in the MST 84

Conclusion 89

Bibliography 90

6 Children and Young People's Participation in India: Framing Law, Policy and the Media / Saima Saeed Saeed, Saima 91

Introduction 91

Part I An ancient Indian perspective to understanding the limited mode of social participation for children 92

Part II Children's rights in India: a legal and policy perspective 96

part III The State of Children and Young People's participation in India 101

conclusion 109

Notes 110

Bibliography 111

7 Transformative Participation: Experiences of a Children's Sangam in Tamil Nadu (South India) / Carine Le Borgne Borgne, Carine Le 113

Introduction 113

Background 114

Arunodhaya Origins 114

The children's Sangam model 116

Activities of the children's Sangam 116

Transformative 'potential' of the children's sangam and challenges 119

Lessons learnt from the children's sangam 125

conclusion 126

Acknowledgments 127

Notes 127

Bibliography 128

8 Unsettling Notions of Participation: A View from South Africa / Shirley Pendlebury Pendlebury, Shirley, Particia Henderson Henderson, Particia, Lucy Jamieson Jamieson, Lucy 130

Introduction 130

Part I Political action and Social transformation 132

Part II Reconstituting 'childhoods'; Constituting rights 134

Part III Context matters 137

Part IV Inclusion and exclusion in formal participation 139

Part V Protest and Performance: constituting new publics 142

The 'image': November 2009 144

Conclusion 145

Acknowledgments 146

Bibliography 146

9 Growing Up in a Time of AIDS: The Shining Recorders Of Zisize / Helen Meintjes Meintjes, Helen 150

Introduction 150

Context 152

Project design 154

Radio Programs 156

Broadcast of Programs 157

Children and Young people's sense of Personal transformation 158

Engaging across generations 159

Reaching adults, shifting practice 162

Conclusion 164

Acknowledgments 166

Notes 166

Bibliography 166

10 Children Should Be Seen and Hear? Children and Young People's Participation in the UK / E. Kay M. Tisdall Tisdall, E. Kay M. 168

Introduction 168

Part I The context for children and Young people's participation 169

Part II Transformative potential? 174

Concluding thoughts 182

Acknowledgments 183

Notes 183

Bibliography 184

11 Transforming the Urban Environment: The EcoCity Project / Collin Morrison Morrison, Collin, Cathy McCulloch McCulloch, Cathy, Drew Mackie Mackie, Drew, Sandy Halliday Halliday, Sandy, Howard Liddell Liddell, Howard 189

Introduction 189

The Children's Parliament 189

The EcoCity process 191

Project profile: the EcoCity project in Dunfermline, Scotland 2010-2011 194

Children's views on Participation in the Project 197

Adult participants' Views 198

Factors that facilitate children's involvement 199

Factors that facilitate stakeholders' interests and ability to use children's participation to influence change 200

Is EcoCity transformative? 202

In Conclusion 206

Acknowledgments 206

Notes 207

Bibliography 207

12 Conclusion: Unlearning Participation / Udi Mandel Butler Butler, Udi Mandel, Kelly Teamey Teamey, Kelly 208

Common themes and the challenge of comparisons 209

The 'formal' and the'everyday' 211

The value(s) of participation 214

Participation as learning and transformation 215

The implications of institutional biases 217

A Special kind of listening 225

Bibliography 225.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version

ISBN:

9780230348677

023034867X

OCLC:

892047660